If you have always been short, chubby, and slow, and your sense of success means playing on an NBA team, failure will be your lot in life. If, however, you are pleased to play on a local playground team with other short, chubby, and slow people, and you have a...
I am beginning to suspect that the second half of life is about learning to let go of everything I feverishly collected over the first half that wasn't loving or human.
Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and...
Sometimes when we are disappointed in our church and its leadership, it’s because we are expecting our church to make us happy…expecting what it’s not designed to give. Becoming happy in life is a personal project that can’t be outsourced to others, even one’s...
Life is a gift, though at times unfair and unpredictable. Faith doesn't exempt us from the unfairness, but faith does equip us to deal with the chaos of life with courage and perseverance.
In the third third of life...you discover that everything helps you learn who you are, and that this is why we are here. You roll your eyes at yourself more gently. You sigh and go make yourself a cup of tea.
It is important to remember that the viciousness and wrongs of life stick out very plainly but that even at the worst times there is a great deal of goodness, kindness, and day-to-day decency that goes unnoticed and makes no headlines.
I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life--about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.
Children only get one childhood, whether they feel loved and needed during that childhood determines their outlook and life forever.
Let’s make a habit of believing women who are called to ministry. Before we say: “She lacks discernment or has selfish ambition”, look at the fruit in her life. Allow her to be a credible witness to the outworking of the gospel in her own life story.